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Dr. Liz M. Quinlan @archaeoliz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

🚨Call for Papers🚨 I’ve also got a session at ICAZ 2027 in Vancouver! “Session 6 - Finding the Wild: Zooarchaeology Beyond the Wild/Domestic Divide” is open for submissions with a deadline of August 25! DM me here or email at e.quinlan@exeter.ac.uk Abstract submissions: shorturl.at/oJEuB

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Dr. Liz M. Quinlan @archaeoliz.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

🚨Call for Papers🚨 I’ve got a session at this year's TAG UK meeting! “Recalling the Wild: Persistence, Loss, and the Making of More‑Than‑Human Worlds” is open for submissions with a deadline of September 7. Send submissions to e.quinlan@exeter.ac.uk. More info: tag2026.square.site/sessions

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Dr. Liz M. Quinlan @archaeoliz.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

It always tickles me when @alieward.bsky.social says something like "enjoy washing dishes or whatever you're doing while listening to @ologies.bsky.social" and I'm doing silly nerd nonsense like measuring mullet bones in a Belgian ichthyoarchaeology lab 😅 Fueled by podcasts, this work is 🐟

Image of a workspace with two sheets of paper in the foreground that have fish bones separated out by type, and a set of digital calipers. In the background is a computer with a spreadsheet visible, as well as various bags of bones and other tools.

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Dr. Liz M. Quinlan @archaeoliz.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Locking in to finally finish this abstract for the @oceanspast.bsky.social 🐟

View of a cozy living room with a large TV visible in the background, showing the title screen to Blue Planet II. In the foreground is a laptop screen which has the landing page for the Oceans Past Initiative conference on the left and a Google doc with several bullet points and paragraphs on the right.

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Zena Kamash @zenakamash.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Following yesterday's EAA Special Meeting, I have submitted a complaint to the EAA Appeal and Anti-Harassment Committee. I post it here, with names redacted, for any members who were not present. Thank you so much to everyone who has reached out with messages of solidarity and support 🙏💓🙏

In spite of the Safe Space Policy being clearly stated at the beginning of the meeting, Prof. XXXXX targeted me by name, calling for my resignation from my position as Editor of the society's journal. Furthermore, his misuse of my title, referring to me as "Miss Kamash", felt deliberately demeaning. This intimidating behaviour explicitly contravenes the EAA Safe Space Policy. Although he was muted, for which I was grateful, I experienced a panic attack following his comments and did not feel safe to speak for the remainder of the meeting. This was further compounded by not only Prof. XXXXX being allowed to remain in the online meeting, but also being invited to take the floor again after the break. This gives me strong concerns about the effectiveness of the Safe Space Policy.

On a broader point about the effectiveness of the Safe Space Policy, I also note that members whose position aligned with that of Concerned EAA were repeatedly and persistently accused of anti-Semitism throughout the meeting. This is a serious accusation that should not be levelled without due care and evidentiary support. Its use as a blanket accusation seems to have been designed with the explicit aim of silencing and intimidating members aligned with Concerned EAA, which again contravenes the Safe Space Policy and should have been dealt with more robustly during the meeting.

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KJ Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

It's your birthday, Duane.

Duane Kearns Puryear, holding his panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt. It reads, in block letters: "My name is Duane Kearns Puryear. I was born on December 20, 1964. I was diagnosed with AIDS on September 7, 1987 at 4:45 PM. I was 22 old. Sometimes, it makes me very sad. I made this panel myself. If you are reading it, I am dead..."

There are several great resources to learn about Duane, his advocacy, his family, his panel, and the politics of memory and re-creation, especially this one by The Dallas Way: http://www.thedallasway.org/stories/written/2021/9/19/duane-puryears-and-the-quilt-panel

Duane Puryear died in 1991.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Im genuinely so befuddled by this; I DON'T LACK IDEAS. I have so MANY ideas and plans--its time, money, and energy I lack. I don't need genAI to make up stuff for me, my brain does that perfectly well, and I actually love that my brain does that for me.

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Dr. Liz M. Quinlan @archaeoliz.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I've got a stress twitch developing in my left eye and there's a persistent flicker in all of the overhead lighting of the room I'm working from right now. If anyone sees me lying face first on the cobbles in the middle of the Exeter Christmas Market today just leave me, I'm doing fine.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Also, to be clear, when a trans instructor at OU is being punished and targeted for quite fairly grading a terrible essay, it’s bizarre to see academics online debating the rubrics. That’s…not the problem.

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singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

bisig, adj: busy, occupied. (BIH-zih / ˈbɪ-zɪj) Image: Calendar page for December in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg; France (Paris), before 1349; @metcloisters.bsky.social object 69.86. #OldEnglish #WOTD

Medieval manuscript illustration of a man using an axe to chop branches from leafless tree or bush; a goat-snail hybrid creature watches him from beside a fire.

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Dr. Liz M. Quinlan @archaeoliz.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Lucy's been inspiring me ever since I met her-- read more about her work improving Wikipedia here!

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

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Dr. Liz M. Quinlan @archaeoliz.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

What's the point of going on holiday if you can't be incredibly annoying about it? I'm completely incapable of switching off my brain while having fun, so I recorded all the fish species my friend and I saw on our snorkelling trips in the Red Sea. Check out the infographic here: shorturl.at/hh7bB

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Dr. Liz M. Quinlan - Infographics

Taxonomic families of reef-associated fish spotted on four separate snorkelling trips near Hurghada, Egypt in November of 2025. A total of 81 species were recorded by two divers (myself and my friend ...

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

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The Marine Biological Association @thembauk.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Friday feels, finding out the North Atlantic right whale, one of the rarest whales on the planet, is finally showing the first signs of slow recovery. Amazing photos by Deluna Vision #NorthAtlanticRightWhale #RightWhales #WhaleConservation

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Dr. Liz M. Quinlan @archaeoliz.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Revisiting some classic ichthyoarchaeology papers on the train as I desperately try to race Storm Claudia out of the country ⛈️😅

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Dr. Liz M. Quinlan @archaeoliz.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

With any luck I'll soon have indefinite leave to remain and therefore indefinite leave to be even more annoying ✨

A screenshot of an email from UK Visas and Immigration that says 'Your Life in the UK Test is booked".

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I dunno about Trump but I sure hope these emails take down the NYT

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 12/11/2025

every night I go to bed as an American immigrant abroad knowing that I’m gonna wake up to the wildest shit having just happened back in my country overnight 😮‍💨

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Dr. Liz M. Quinlan @archaeoliz.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Head on over to our project website to read all about the recent conference and data collection trip which had me zigzagging across northwestern Europe via train all the way from Copenhagen to Exeter! #researchupdate #archaeology #datacollection sites.google.com/palaeome.org...

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Beyond Stockfish - Blog

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago

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Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

A very good Watson obit here, written, though obviously not published, years before he died.

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Dr. Liz M. Quinlan @archaeoliz.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

In the spirit of sharing more research updates (and posting more in general), I realized I forgot to mention a pretty big life/research change-- I've moved Down South 🫨 #archaeology #researchupdate #lifeupdate

Image of Liz, a white woman with blue hair, smiling and standing on a beach. Visible behind her are red cliffs, a stretch of open sand, and crashing waves.

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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Dammit Ingold

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Dr. Liz M. Quinlan @archaeoliz.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

If you wondered what using denatured trypsin in your collagen (ZooMS) samples looks like, here you go. Dark teal blue on the left (an Atlantic salmon-- Salmo salar) is a normal mass spectrum, olive green on the is the same sample, but showing an incredibly noisy spectrum. #proteomics #archaeology

A mass spectrum for an Atlantic salmon, showing normal peaks and valleys

A noisy, poor quality spectrum for the same sample as the first photo

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Dr. Liz M. Quinlan @archaeoliz.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

not me forgetting that BlueSky doesn't support uploaded gifs 😅

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 23/04/2025

The reality in the UK right is now the ideology of trans eradication is being given more legal protections than the reality of being trans. And if you can't see that with everything that's going on, then you are part of the problem. Do better, listen to trans people, fight back against the bigots.

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Dr. Liz M. Quinlan @archaeoliz.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Not to brag, but this is the view from my hotel room...

A vista showing a grassy field in the foreground, rows of grape vines, a collection of buildings and small towns scattered about behind, and in the distance is the Hottentots-Holland Mountain Range beneath a bright blue sky with puffy white clouds.

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Dr. Liz M. Quinlan @archaeoliz.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I returned to my conference live-posting roots today for a session here in Stellenbsoch. Really amazing presentations on the development of a supervision seminar series, fostering communities of practice, and incorporating Indigenous Knowledge modes and relationality into PhD supervision.

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Next Generation Research SuperVision Project @next-gen-rsvp.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

It's Day 1 of the Postgraduate Supervision Conference here in beautiful Stellenbosch! We're excited to check out some papers on RSVP core topics like supervisor development and practice. If you spot me (Liz, RSVP postdoc) throughout the day, feel free to come up and say hello! #PSCStellenbosch2025

A white woman, Liz Quinlan, stands smiling and holding up a conference badge with her name and an RSVP pin badge on it. In the background are vineyards and a mountain range.

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Next Generation Research SuperVision Project @next-gen-rsvp.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

RSVP is heading to Stellenbosch for the 9th Biennial Conference on Research into Postgraduate Supervision! Our Postdoctoral Research Associate @archaeoliz.bsky.social will be taking over to post on LinkedIn, as well as here on Bluesky, during next week's conference from 26 to 28 March 2025. (1/3)

Photo of Dr Liz Quinlan, RSVP Postdoctoral Research Associate based at the University of York. Accompanying text from Liz: Over the course of three days, I’ll be representing RSVP at the Ninth Biennial Conference on Research Into Postgraduate Supervision in Stellenbosch where I’ll discuss some of the exciting empirical data gathered so far from RSVP research initiatives. I’ll be sharing my thoughts on LinkedIn and Bluesky. Come and say hello if you see me there!

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Dr. Liz M. Quinlan @archaeoliz.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Keep your eye's peeled on the RSVP account next week-- I'll be reporting in from a pretty exciting place 🐧🌺🌍

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NPR @npr.org · 10/03/2025

Mahmoud Khalil was inside his university-owned apartment Saturday night when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered and took him into custody.

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ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests

Mahmoud Khalil was inside his university-owned apartment Saturday night when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered and took him into custody.

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Open Research at York @uoyopenres.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

We have published a new Open Research in Practice case study by @archaeoliz.bsky.social which describes FAIR and open practices in archaeological research, tracking the decline of salmon in the North Sea basin 🐟

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FAIR and open practices in archaeological research: Salmo sp. open code publication - Open Research at York - York Wiki Service

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Dr. Liz M. Quinlan @archaeoliz.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

My current postdoctoral work with the Next Generation RSVP project has centred around research supervision development and I'm really excited to share a first taster of some of our findings from the 2024 UKRSS, as well as focus groups with supervisors across England. wonkhe.com/blogs/resear...

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Research supervision in the context of REF - time for a step change?

Karen Clegg, Liz Quinlan, and Nicola Palmer take a look at REF and the implications for research supervision

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Dr. Liz M. Quinlan @archaeoliz.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I got an email yesterday responding to an archive request I made from an Ivy League university library about several photos in their collection, as well as an an automated follow-up email asking for feedback on the service I received. I submitted the request on October 10, 2020 🫠

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Dr. Liz M. Quinlan @archaeoliz.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

addicted to this now 😅 🪱 Animal #550 🐠 I figured it out in 7 guesses! 🟥🟧🟧🟧🟨🟩🟩 🔥 4 | Avg. Guesses: 8.5 metazooa.com #metazooa

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Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!

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Alice Bennett @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Everyone who works in anything library or information related has been bombarded with stuff about how AI is a game changer. I work in digital accessibility and am unconvinced - here is a thing I wrote about it for work: blogs.york.ac.uk/digital-acce...

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AI and Accessibility: feature, the future or fad? – Digital Accessibility

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Dr. Liz M. Quinlan @archaeoliz.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Walked across a stage with a life sized plush toy salmon yesterday-- what did you get up to?

Image of Liz Quinlan in academic robes and a doctoral hat, in front of Central Hall at the University of York. She is holding a life sized plush toy salmon.

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Dr Alessio Veneziano @aveneziano.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

#Science 🧪 looks all shipshape and shiny but for those - like me - who are trying to make it through the pityless meanders of #academia, it's an endless run from grant to grant, temporary jobs and relocations in the hope of a permanent position...people should see this side too! #FairAcademia

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Dr. Liz M. Quinlan @archaeoliz.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Inspired by a friend's discussion about wanting to do more on their heritage-associated hobby this year, I really want to get back into posting more archaeological content on social media in 2025. (1/9)

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Dr. Liz M. Quinlan @archaeoliz.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I recently started re-watching Lost and man, these first two seasons really are just GREAT television. It's especially fun to watch with my housemate who has never seen it before.

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Dr. Liz M. Quinlan @archaeoliz.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

obligatory working on the weekend sweet treat

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Dr. Liz M. Quinlan @archaeoliz.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I'm hoping my new influx of followers isn't expecting much in the way of archaeology right now-- currently my academic work is focused on research supervision development and pedagogy, which unfortunately makes for less exciting content 😅

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Dr. Liz M. Quinlan @archaeoliz.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I don't even mind that I'm in the house working on a report on a Saturday night because I walked through York at 3:30 this afternoon and I was ready to launch myself into space. Apparently all the council and private car parks are full and they've started letting people park on the Knavesmire 🙃

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